Since Barack asked the question, we might as well answer it.

Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty...?
Barack Obama
Campaign Speech in Berlin
July 24, 2008

Not only can we, I'd like to point to a family that did.

[I]n 1991 Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.

Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. "I hope she can stay with us," she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget.

[T]here was a second infant Mrs. McCain brought back. She ended up being adopted by a young McCain aide and his wife.

"We were called at midnight by Cindy," Wes Gullett remembers, and "five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the L.A. airport wearing the only clothing Cindy could find on the trip back, a 7-Up T-shirt she bought in the Bangkok airport." Today, Nicki is a high school sophomore. Mr. Gullett told me, "I never saw a hospital bill" for her care.

And what's more, Barry, the McCains did it without a new government program and massive spending of funds extracted from the pocket of the cash-strapped taxpayers.

But then again, that is the difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans believe that charity is the duty of every individual, according to their means and conscience.

Democrats believe charity takes a village -- a village that takes from you whether or not you can afford it or support the purpose.

H/T Gateway Pundit

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